Computational Grains

Dr. Leiting Dong is currently a Professor in the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering of Beihang University. His areas of research include fatigue and damage tolerance design of complex metal components, multiscale analysis and design of composite materials and structures, and impact modeling and protection design of aircraft structures. Satya N. Atluri is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on many diverse areas of aerospace engineering and computational mechanics. He was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Computational homogenization; 3. Direct numerical simulation of materials using computational grains; 4. Muskhelishvili's complex functions for 2D problems; 5. Computational grains for particulate composites and porous materials; 6. Computational grains for cylindrical fiber composites; 7. Computational grains for nanocomposites; 8. Computational grains for composites with coated inclusions; 9. Computational grains for viscoelastic composites; 10. Computational grains for piezoelectric composites/porous materials; 11. Computational grains with embedded micro-cracks in the matrix and inclusions; 12. Multiscale modeling of composite structures using computational grains.